Pokémon Biology: Specialized Combat

Exploud's voice attacks are incredibly potent due to the nature of the sound created. The tubes from various parts of the specimen's body have the ability to create different noises. If you were to take a long cardboard tube and blow from the top, you would create only a single tone. As the many tubes that extend from Exploud's body are of different length, it's possible for it to immediately create many different tones from a single starting point. If we were to go further with our cardboard tube example, holes in the pipe walls allow us to create even more tones. Surprisingly, Exploud is capable of the same thing through pores that are able to expand and contract by will. So while Exploud is renowned for its incredibly loud noises, the species is also known to create very high pitched sounds that can scare away intruders from its territory.

These tubes are also a defense mechanism against its own species, and even itself. Imagine for a moment living in a house with people who only shout. It would give instant headaches and nobody would be able to sleep at all. To deal with this cacophonous mayhem, Exploud can remove sound vibrations from its body and pass them through another pipe. This ensures that it can live and thrive in caves with its fellow species without suffering too much from the sound wave bombardment.

The queen bee could theoretically be the strongest Pokémon in existence. It has been known that a single Vespiquen can have thousands of Combee as part of her hive. A horde of this size would be able to topple the strongest of opponents in a similar fashion to how eating a thousand RageCandyBars would give you diabetes. The problem lies in two factors. First is that Vespiquen are natural laissez-faire style leaders and will allow their underlings to perform hive duties as necessary. The second aspect is that Combee are incredibly driven by the need to find and collect as much flower nectar as possible. They will travel incredible distances to acquire the nectar from flowers in bloom from all sorts of regions. Thus, a single hive can have honey ambassadors from as far as Almia to Unova at any given time. Wild Vespiquen will have a dedicated guard unit of around 10 Combee to protect the queen. Caught Vespiquen may have as low as three. However, with the use of their signature attacks, these Vespiquen can attract their traveling hive members even from within their Poké Balls, who may switch in and out with the nearby dedicated guard. This guard of Combee are also trained to avoid the general area of the Vespiquen's Trainer as necessary, since having a gang of bee Pokémon constantly buzzing around is a major travel nuisance.

Hitmonchan are by their very nature a competitive species, and are thus used to being punched in the head. Repeatedly. While this may be damaging to the mental capacity of the average human, the Hitmonchan species have in their design a method of suppressing the brute force of boxing gloves to the face. The secret lies in their large face and the spikes on their head which almost resembles hair. When hit by an object in the face, all vibrations travel from their face up along the head's surface and are split through these spikes, thus protecting the brain from forces that would make you or I babble about Psyduck in a pond while sitting comfortably in a hospital bed.

The true strength of Hitmonchan lies within the three elemental punches of fire, ice, and thunder. It has been proven that a Hitmonchan can learn all three of them, even at the exact same time. Most researchers believe they must master one element before they may move onto the next, but the greater lesson is that all three punches and their respective element are not separate. Instead, they are part of a great synergy, and each one complements the other to complete the circle. While many Trainers prefer to have only one or two of those punches within its complete moveset, it is generally understood that Hitmonchan first need to control the elemental punches before they'll be able to execute advanced fighting techniques properly.

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Newton was a smart fellow but he certainly never met Wobbuffet, as every amount of force initially exerted upon it will return with twice the power. The evolution of this species has proven to be quite rapid in the face of its near extinction. The rapid development of their Shadow Tag ability has proven to assist in stabilizing their population, allowing the species to maintain a strategic, if suicidal, advantage over their opponents. In the past, any species with Shadow Tag was not allowed to flee another Pokémon with Shadow Tag. During these dark days Wobbuffet would trap each other, sometimes completely accidentally. Even during these accidents, Wobbuffet are so stubborn that they will continue to trap each other with Shadow Tag until one of them passes out. Nowadays, most Wobbuffet aren't affected by Shadow Tag from others of its species, indicating that they may have grown immune to the effects of their own ability over time.

Pokémon rights activists have recently discovered many criminal enterprises where Wobbuffet are forced into tight living spaces and then subjected to a small electrical jolt which would become Mirror Coated, all in an attempt to generate energy. This was discovered when a Pokémon Center noticed the repeated visits of Trainers carrying nothing but six Wobbuffet. When a team of Pokémon Biologists examined the abused species, they appeared to be less humorous than usual Wobbuffet. While they do seem to enjoy the pain of reflecting attacks, even they know when they are being abused. The species clearly has enormous power despite being incredibly docile.

Farfetch'd populations have been rapidly declining across the world; most of the species can be found in traveling swarms to protect themselves as a flock. As a Pokémon species, I love Farfetch'd, because they are delicious. Although there are now heavy fines for hunting them out of season, I did enjoy their tasty meat as a child in Kanto. The leek they carry just makes it so tempting to want to cook them rather than train them. But I digress. Trainers should train, love, and cherish their Farfetch'd and raise them into competent fighters; it gives the dark meat a great kick to it when added into a soup. Getting back to the point, Farfetch'd are very effective combatants of digestive problems when eaten on rotisserie.

It's actually not even my fault that I want to eat these birds so much; psychological studies have shown that Farfetch'd holding leeks look so much more appetizing. A follow up study was performed and Farfetch'd were given pocket knives disguised as a leek. The Farfetch'd proved to look less tasty to predators and proved to be lethal in combat. The normal leek would only increase the critical hit ratio of a Farfetch'd, while the blades doubled the attack power and significantly increased the odds for landing a critical hit. While the research with the leek-blades has ended and were removed, if Farfetch'd ever acquired even a remotely more powerful weapon, it would be a terrible force to behold.